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Strijd der Planeten (SdP) aired in 1980 and 1981, when the Netherlands had only two channels: 1 and 2. The cartoon series most of the time were part of a programme called 'AVRO's Kinderbios' (by AVRO Television, kinderbios means something like 'kids cinema'). Kinderbios aired on some Wednesday afternoons.
In this programme cartoons were shown for two hours (here is the programme, from a tv guide of 1981), with a short break after the first hour (can you imagine any programmme giving you a break today without commercials?). The first cartoons were for the little kids, but once the show lasted longer more 'difficult' cartoons were shown. Strijd der Planeten was always the last cartoon. It was dubbed, like all other Kinderbios cartoons. This is interesting 'cause at the beginning of the eighties lots of cartoons were still subbed, especially the ones for 'older' children.
Here you find links of other cartoons that aired on the Kinderbios. The text of this page is in Dutch, but most sites I link to are in English.


Battle of the Planets

Strijd der Planeten was the Dutch language version of the American TV series Battle of the Planets (BotP). Originally the series are from Japan though. Gatchaman is the original name and it is an anime. Anime means Japanese animated movie(s). Dutch people often confuse anime with manga. Manga means Japanese comic though.
Gatchaman turned out to be too violent for the American market, so a lot of violent scenes were cut. New animation was added to have enough material (a robot called 7-Zark-7, Dutch: Comp 7) who talked a lot between the scenes, Hoyt Curtin added beautiful music and Battle of the Planets was born.

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